The 2024 (BS*) Building Science Symposium Season is ramping up!  There are SIX events currently scheduled throughout the 2024 calendar year.  The IBS Show in Las Vegas is coming up next month - February 26th!  Those of you who are “in the know” about this organization may have already benefited from attending one or more previous Symposiums … right here in Kansas City or elsewhere in the good ‘ol USA.  BS# and Beer KC brings professional builders together to enjoy an intense couple of days ... Read More about 2024 BS* SYMPOSIUM SEASON

Are you sharing your success stories?  On your website, on your office walls, through your social media posts and even your emails?  For years (actually, decades) the team at LG Barcus & Sons has engaged P-Tn to photograph their major projects and produce framed color prints for gifting to their customers, thanking their project team members & employees, and for impressive wall display photographs throughout their offices.  As the world has turned more ‘digital’, we now create both still ... Read More about LG BARCUS SHARES SUCCESS STORIES

Here we are again – in beautiful rural Kansas!  This assignment took us to Independence, Kansas for Pre-Construction photo/video documentation of a water system expansion for Nowak Construction.  Whether it’s open areas through farmland and along rural roadways, or along streets and through yards in cities or suburbs, specifications often require both PRE and Post-Construction records of pipeline routes like this one. In the event of an unforeseen dispute during or after construction, a P-Tn ... Read More about INDEPENDENCE KANSAS WATER SYSTEM

As many of our clients are members of the Heavy Contractors Association, you likely have already seen the December 1, 2023 issue of the HCA Newsletter - - which featured J.M. Fahey Construction in the “HEAVIES At Work” feature.  A selection of P-Tn photographs illustrate work this summer when their crews completed (along with many other Kansas City Metro Area projects) the resurfacing of 22nd Street between Oak St. and Harrison St. (just west of 71 Highway.  This very busy street handles heavy ... Read More about HCA – HEAVY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

We’ve completed our 50th year [that’s right – a half century] in business!  Thank you! Read some of our P-Tn HISTORY, then take some time to visit our SERVICES PAGE - see what we’ve been doing for five decades, and learn how we might bring the value of our PHOTO / VIDEO Visual Documentation Services to you & your business! It was way, way back in 1973 that a young man fresh out of high school, moved back to his hometown of Kansas City, from the ‘frozen tundra’ of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  ... Read More about HALF A CENTURY, GONE!

This is another P-Tn Time-Lapse Video illustrating a track & field resurfacing & rebuild by our friends at PCC Construction.  Not one of their more spectacular projects, but most any construction work is interesting to watch when it’s sped up.  This project was completed in Alice, Texas for the William Adams Middle School.  New track, fencing, and field, plus (soon to be) new tennis courts; this Time-Lapse ends before completion as the Solar Trailer had to move on to another project site ... Read More about ALICE TEXAS WEBCAM TIME-LAPSE

Have a look at some BIG pieces of equipment doing big jobs … from a fresh perspective; from A-B-O-V-E!Watching heavy construction equipment at work is fun, but it’s even more fun if you’re viewing the goings-on from a unique perspective … from ABOVE!  We do share our drone aerial imaging, but this assignment gave us the unique opportunity to capture a variety of activities at a Midwest quarry.Our drone aerials often provide periodic construction aerial progress reporting, to supplement ... Read More about A FRESH PERSPECTIVE – from above!

We just released these two matching color enlargements for office Wall Display by one of our P-Tn clients in St. Joseph, MO.  The overall dimensions of each framed print are 26 x 38 inches, which makes for a high-quality image with ample detail in this aerial view of the downtown Kansas City metropolitan area.  Our staff used client information to locate and place a numbered icon at major project sites in the metro, placing an icon there, and adding an index table at the bottom of the print.  It ... Read More about WALL DISPLAY PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS

LOOK at this unique deliverable we create for our clients when P-Tn records their OWNER TRAINING SESSIONS!We use our unique LINKINGapp All-Digital approach for delivering videos of Mechanical System Owner Training Sessions.  This popular  method  makes for an impressive and high-quality deliverable to close out any project – something that will be both valuable and useful to the Owner’s Facility Management personnel for many years to come.P-Tn clients such as McCown Gordon and JE Dunn have ... Read More about OWNER TRAINING & PROJECT CLOSEOUT

I imagine many of you will recognize this building.  It sits on the northeast quadrant at the corner of 95th Street & Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park.  It’s the newest phase of construction in the Shamrock Trading Corporation headquarters.  Although construction is clearly not finished … we’re sharing the P-Tn ProgressWEBCAM Time-Lapse of the work completed – to-date.This installation by P-Tn is unique for several reasons.  It is mounted on the roof of the first building constructed in this ... Read More about STC HEADQUARTERS EXPANSION in OPKS

WE ARE NOT moving P-Tn to Las Vegas, but the Building Science Symposium Series is!  The BA* and BEER Symposium Series for 2024 has wrapped up with four successful events throughout 2023.  A new series will be announced for the 2024 calendar year soon, but coming up first is the IBS 2024 event, to be held in Las Vegas, NV this coming February.The speakers and the topics to be presented are some of the same you’ve heard about in promotions for BS and BEER Symposiums during 2023.  The subject of ... Read More about MOVING ON TO LAS VEGAS

This ‘FINAL’ version of the P-Tn ProgressWEBCAM Time-Lapse Video showing construction of the new United Missouri Bank Facility at I-435 and State Line Road includes a final capture showing the finished building & landscaping complete.  This was a relatively quick build by D.E. Ross Construction of Raytown, Missouri – another long time P-Tn client.  Of course, “quick” is a relative term; quality construction does take time … but that’s what makes a Time-Lapse Video so fascinating when it ... Read More about UMB BANK FINAL TIME-LAPSE VIDEO